Improvement in safety-pockets



f UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A sA WILMT, or NEW HAVEN, coNNEoTioU'r.

IMPROVEMENT IN sAFETY-FOGKETS.

Specification forming part of' Letters Patent No. 40,528, dated November 3, 1863.

To aZZ whom, t may concern: 1

Beit known that I, ASA VILMGT, ot` the city and county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful l `Improvement in Pockets; andI do hereby y declare the following to be a full, clear, and

exact description ofthe same, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings,

which form a part ot' this specification, in Which- Figure l is a front view. Fig. 2 is a top View .of the. mouth closed.. Fig. 3. is a section on my. Fig. 4 'is a top view, mouth open.

Same letters of reference indicate like parts. The object of my invention is to construct apocket upon which the operations of the most skillful pickpocket will be unsuccessful; and it consists in closing the mouth ot' the iocket by means ot' an elastic band attached to a metal stay, in the manneriof a bow and bow-string, so that the contents could not he taken there-v from Without the knowledge of the wearer. To enable 'others to make andv use my improved pocket. I will proceed to describe my manner of so doing.

I make my improved pocket independent of the garment in which it is to be worn. Upon the upper edge of the inner side,.A, l insert a stay ot'steel or similar material to hold the mouth of the pocket flat, and upon the opposite side or front, I3, I insert an elastic cord or band, each end ot' which is fastehed at or near the ends of the said metallic stay. The front I make'full and shirr it upon the said elastic. l

To attach the pocket to a garment I prefer to place it within a commonpocket. vI make eyes a c upon the metal stay. and by these in any convenient manner make my pocket fast requires so much force that other hands than the Wearers would cause so much strain upon the garments as not to permit its being done without his knowledge, and for the same reasons instruments couldnbeuseditor.thegpnr;V pose ot' extracting the contents through the mouth ot' the pocket as may heand ot'ten is done from common pockets.

l To prevent extraction of the contents hy means of cutting the garments, I make the front of the pocket of two thicknesses of fahric, d and b. Between these I place a net-work of' metallic chain's,'or their equivalents, as denoted by red lines, Fig. l, and '.5 3, and I place these chains so near together, or make the Imeshes so small, that, although the fabric be cut, the contents cannot be extracted therefrom, and thus I produce a pocket proof against the operations ofthe most skillful pickpocket.

Having thus fully set i'orth my invention,

what I claim therein, and desire lto secure hy- A pocket protected at its mouth, in the manner described,.by an elastic cord or band, c, combined with a metallic stay, substantially as specified.

ASA WILMOT.

Witnesses:

F. BRIsToLL, JOHN E. EARLE.

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